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Is this Low profile?? Corsair Dominator 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMP16GX3M2A1600C10) [CMP16GX3M2A1600C10]

If Not, is it as Good as the Low profile (or better) and if I buy it, would the Gelid Tranquillo cpu cooler go with it?? if NOT, which cooler should I buy.

SOME OF THIS WEEKS best BUY ARE AT THE PRICE that sattisfies me so need to know asp Please.

Going to buy the KFA2 GeForce GT640 1024MB as well.
Just waiting and hopeing the i5-3570K 3.40GHz retail will drop in price soon.

Link don't work, corsair Dominator is this weeks special offer of £95.99 Whils the one that says Low Profile is at £109.99
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=8&subid=1517
 
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dominators are not low profile, i'd get either of these instead:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Corsair XMS3 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX16GX3M2A1600C11) £95.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED316G1600HC11DC) £79.99
Total : £185.58 (includes shipping : £8.00).



tranquillo is fine or you could get the alpenflohn matterhorn pure edition
YOUR BASKET
1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler (Socket LGA2011/1366/1155/1156/775/ AMD AM3/AM3+/AM2/AM2+/FM1) £29.99
Total : £35.96 (includes shipping : £4.98).



the gt640 is terrible, avoid it like the plague, for the same-ish price u can get the 6850 which is a much better card


YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI HD 6850 OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £83.99
Total : £93.89 (includes shipping : £8.25).



6850 vs gt640: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/539?vs=612
 
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I'm NOT playing any Games, it is for Photography & Video, so would that MSI HD 6850 be Good for Photoshop. Card must have Open GL & Open CL if possible for PSCS6....PSCS5 uses CUDA.

all will be with an i5 3570K 3.40 retail plus Gigabyte Z77X-D3H mobo.
should have said that first off, Sorry.

I'll stick with my Gelid Tranquillo cooler----I know that G/C is Good for Games, (my friend mentioned that the other day) but how good for photoshop is it??

Which Ram is Better-- the Corsair XMS3 you mentioned, or the Corsair Vengence Low Profile @ £109.99.
SORRY to be a Pain in the backside as I want to make sure I get the correct ones that will last me a long while, whilst keeping cost down.

Thank You Both.

PS----- 700w modular PSU, with at least 8 SATA on it--Which is better--OCZ ZX 650w psu or the Cooler Master Silent Pro modular 700w 80+Bronze. OR Equivulant if you know one.
 
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The vengeance is marginally faster but you will need to change the bios setting to select the xmp profile I believe. The XMS3 and the Teamgroup run 11-11-11-28 while the vengeance runs at 10-10-10-27.
TBH its not much of a difference, and not going to be noticable in real world usage.
 
Thank You eddyr.. It's finding the correct PSU now as the one I wanted is out of stock at moment. Need a modular PSU with at least 8 SATA connections onboard. It's going to run lots of Hard Drives + a NAS + a 4 port usb gigabyte network server (but not over £90 if possible) etc.etc.
Cheers
 
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